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Agreed. I wasn't disagreeing with you. I was using "no" in the sense of "yes, and".

Yes it is.

No, that's autodefenestration.

Yeah, aside from Pilgrim himself, Jung is currently the main protagonist. I use the term "spooky".

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Pilgrim by Timothy Findley. Intriguing and beautifully written.

Ecurb's objections have been entirely reasonable and polite. Please stop sabotaging the discussion with unjustified accusations and emotional reaction...

Next time turn left onto the Oka when you get to Nizhny Novgorod, then turn right onto the Moscow river at Kolomna. What surprised me is that the sour...

True, well-spotted, but the Moscow river is a tributary of one of the main tributaries of the Volga. And I don't think they were going for geographica...

Fun fact: there is a small village in Ayrshire called Moscow, and it has a tiny stream flowing through it called the Volga (by a local with a sense of...

That brook in Sheffield would be called a burn in Scotland, or an allt in the Gaelic-speaking lands of the Highlands. This indicates that the words re...

https://youtu.be/s-9osMKSyb0?si=pHq6QDagDSFOVX2E https://youtu.be/jfaW-yD7DoA?si=BTjpu6ITRKAY-Fu1

Yeah, now you mention it I see how cool that is. The point of view goes from Davidson to Lubyov and then to Selver.

In my profile. Yeah but for a novella of just over 100 pages, it's pretty well developed.

Ewoks, ewoks, ewoks. I'm toying with the idea that the crucial moment of the book is when Colonel Dongh goes to speak with Selver, which comes after m...

410 now.

:up: https://youtu.be/iWTwT4N-9BU?si=FZptbnF2QVSA0vpT

That's more like it :smile:

I take it "random" refers to your method of arranging words in sentences?

Exactly. Added to the list.

Gotta get your fibre.

Yeah I thought bologna was really smooth and dense. Not nuts. I always thought it was oats but I guess barley is a possibility. Recipes vary.

The Word for World is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin. It's a little more solemn and preachy than I would normally go for but she's such a great writer sh...

Not so similar: https://hendersonfinefoodco.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/sliced-haggis.jpg

Only recently arrived in the UK. It's probably the most common way to eat it, in slices fried individually for breakfast.

I'm no longer close to a Popeye's so it's actually not readily available.

You're implying that the addition of the flatbread and lettuce detracts from the tender experience. I'm sceptical about that.

That was the spicy chicken wrap, and I don't know exactly what "tenders" are but could it be that that's exactly what was in the wrap? Anyway yeah, de...

Edinburgh food record. 1. Hummus avocado toast 2. Supermarket falafel bowl 3. Popeye's Louisiana Chicken (my first time) 4. Haggis and egg roll with H...

Rather than mere vandalism, this suggests that the people who did it see Hume as an intellectual or spiritual hero, that they were using the mausoleum...

Got a print-on-demand version on lulu.com: /uploads/resized/files/pz/sm3hdrgkehy8tr8e.jpg

I wouldn't be surprised to find out he got sick of playing it; I just doubt he definitively hates or hated it, that it's easy to play (well), and that...

I don't believe it therefore it's entirely wrong. Flawless logic.

It should happen February/March as planned. I will post here when there's something to post.

On the basis that I don't believe it.

Wrong on all counts.

(Original title, Sergeant Bertrand) Excellent story. Written in 1991 but takes on new meaning now, although it also has the feel of the classics, espe...

Aye aye, sir.

That reminds me of that story about the guy who remembers everything.

And you could go up the river to Fray Bentos, famous for providing pies to Brits: https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71OOshyMOWL._AC_UF1000,1000_QL80...

Ah, maybe I was looking at nominations. I like some Asimov quite a bit.

I've haven't taken any notice of Hugo or Nebula for a long time, ever since I realized how many of the winning novels were rubbish. For example, Larry...

I've heard Montevideo is the place to be these days. Maybe A. Sandwich could just row across the river?

/uploads/resized/files/sk/yhnqv85sr4miz7bj.jpg Though I've been mainly an e-book reader for the last 10 years, now I'm in Scotland for a while I'm fin...

Jung again? I've always been more of a Freudist. On the other hand, he seems there to be describing something a bit like the concept of disenchantment...

As righteous Trotskyists we were against that sort of thing. We ranked Tankies and Stalinists only just above Nazis and liberals.

Wannabe. The organization I got caught up in, a tiny so-called Trotskyist group, was more a cult than a political party.

Reading A. J. P. Taylor's history of the First World War, I was surprised by this: I read a three-volume biography of Trotsky in my youth. I would've ...

Fair points.